throne
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His son Haakon automatically succeeded him to the throne.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Crown Prince Haakon, 53, the successor to the Norwegian throne, has been serving as regent while his father is on leave.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
On the one hand, Darkness’ giant black horns, glowing eyes and claws declare his absolute malice from the moment he appears onscreen, mournfully slumped on a throne.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
But one thing is certain: No love is lost between Prince William, heir to the throne, and his younger brother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
They were off across London to St. Paul’s Cathedral to give thanks for the Queen’s sixty years upon the greatest throne in human history.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
The ceremony then culminated with Mullally being seated in two different thrones.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
Warner Bros.’ sale has become the industry’s game of thrones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
The objects, which include richly embroidered vestments and lavishly sculpted monstrances, Eucharist thrones and sanctuary lamps made of jewel-studded precious metals, are eye-catchingly high Baroque.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
It is a scale replica of a Edwardian-style royal residence and has a grand piano, lavishly decorated bedrooms, a pair of velvet and silver thrones and a wine cellar with tiny bottles of real champagne.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2024
The thrones were empty except for two at the end: the head throne on the right, and the one to its immediate left.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
A hoarder of women, art, antiquities — and most of all, money — Getty also might have taken issue with Portia’s claim that mercy “becomes the throned monarch better than his crown.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2017
So Blatter is seeking to be throned for another four years as Fifa big cheese at the elections to be held in June.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2011
They have commanded knights and serfs, taken walled towns and sat throned among their armies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Behind the desk, in the chair, Franz Rosenzweig was throned.
From Time Magazine Archive
A kingdom where kings are throned and dethroned daily.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
The king and queen, my lady dear, Touching the throning, for my sake Some salutary counsel take.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
According to the ethics of the day, he was a model citizen, whereas Antony throning as Osiris with a female Mithridates for consort, was as oblivious of Roman dignity as of conjugal faith.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
These kings sought to crown that semi-barbarous occupation of North Italy during two centuries by throning themselves in Rome, and making the Pope their vassal.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
On every side, where'er he came, He heard glad words, their theme the same, As in their joy the gathered folk Of Ráma and the throning spoke.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
Thus toward that throning bosom Where all earth is warmed,—each spot Nourished with autumnal blessings - Icy chill was Daphne caught.
From Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith
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